Volume 1 Village Story Chapter 9 Trap

  Although he spoke lightly, his pace was extremely slow, and he moved cautiously towards me with his eyes scanning the surroundings nervously, afraid of making a mistake. Soon, my first trap was discovered by him. It was a simple routine trap, and the traces were not well cleaned up.

  He shook his head, seemingly dissatisfied with the poor quality of my trap. In less than a moment, he easily eliminated it. Then, he quickly found and disarmed the second, third, and fourth traps I had set, growing increasingly displeased. As he broke through my fifth trap, he stood up and said to me: "Kid, if this is all you've got, I suggest you go back and study some more, come back next year. Although your previous performance was good, and I like you, the rules are the rules. Your level of trap-making skills won't pass the intermediate assessment."

  I stood at a distance, smiled at him and scratched the back of my head, saying: "I'm just this level, Judge is too powerful, I've already lost half of my traps. It seems that this time I really won't pass. When you remove all my traps, I'll definitely ask for your advice on how you broke through my traps."

  Peng Jian smiled and said with a hint of pride, "Actually, there's nothing special about it. You've just seen too many, and your traps are too crude. The traces haven't been cleaned up properly, so they're easily discovered at a glance. I'll teach you now. Look, the sixth trap has obvious signs of someone having moved around it, and there's even a handprint on the floating soil above it. Isn't that a bit careless?" As he spoke, he walked towards the sixth trap, which was about to be dismantled as well.

  But when he walked to the front of the trap, the ground suddenly collapsed. With no psychological preparation, his entire leg was plunged into the hole that suddenly appeared on the ground. If I hadn't removed the arrowhead from the bamboo arrow inserted in the hole earlier, his leg would have been crippled by my trap today.

  I flashed a harmless smile as I sprang the sixth trap, and said, "Sir, you've fallen for it!"

  The judge's face turned awkward as he pulled out his leg, smiled at me and said: "Not bad, it turns out that everything in front was numb to me. I said your trap level is so poor, if I were you, I wouldn't dare take the exam." After finishing speaking, his face quickly returned to its calm state when he first entered the forest, raised his hand and pointed to the nearby decoy trap: "This decoy is well done, but I still have to dismantle it, can't waste materials."

  After he finished, he began to dismantle the trap. Just as the trap was about to be dismantled, a tragedy occurred, a bolt without an arrowhead shot out from under the trap and hit him straight in the chest, although it had no arrowhead, but the powerful impact still knocked him to the ground, clutching his chest, speechless for half a day.

  I hastily went up to help him up, rubbing his chest for him. Although I was delighted in my heart, I said with a straight face: "Oh dear, sorry about that, I didn't expect the impact of close range would be so great, and you suffered from it. How are you? Are you feeling better? Do you want me to call a doctor to take a look at you?"

  He shook his head painfully, stopping my suggestion to call a doctor. He took a deep breath and pointed at me, saying: "Good kid... I've been in charge of the assessment for ten years, but no candidate has ever made me lose so badly. However, you really did it, setting up a chain trap. The person who taught you this kind of trick is truly vicious." I shrugged my shoulders and gave him a helpless bitter smile.

  Although his face still looked very painful, he was very professional and continued to walk towards my next trap after a short rest. As he walked, he said: "Another trap, do you think I would fall for it again after being tricked once? You're insulting me." After that, he started disassembling the trap. I followed behind him worriedly and said: "Sir, why don't you stop now? I'll take it apart myself to show you, your injury hasn't healed yet, your body can't withstand another impact."

  Upon hearing my words, the Judge sneered and said, "Do you think I'd fall for a trick like yours again? A linked trap, don't worry, I'll dismantle it." As he spoke, he indeed dismantled the first layer of traps above and carefully disarmed another one hidden below. When the second trap was disarmed, a triumphant smile appeared on his face, but tragedy struck at that very moment.

  Another arrow shot out from under the second trap and hit him in the chest again, causing him so much pain that he fell to his knees. I rushed forward to support him and said: "Ah, sir, I told you I'd disarm it! Look at how much pain you're in... Alas, sir, take care of yourself!"

  The judge sat on the ground, motionless for a long time. He shook his head and said: "Today I'm really convinced, the last trap, what does it look like? You triggered it yourself to show me, I admit defeat to you, this little guy... What kind of brain can think of so many tricks..."

  Upon hearing the verdict, I immediately said obediently: "Sir, the last trap is manually triggered, of course, I absolutely won't hurt you. This last trap was originally for me to demonstrate to you, as for whether it's qualified or not, it's all up to you to decide." After finishing, I also quickly sent a flattering smile.

  The judge didn't waste any words with me, sat on the ground, rubbing his chest while directly waving at me and said: "In terms of qualifications, you're already eligible to be rated as excellent, I'm just curious what kind of tricks your last trap has, hurry up and let me see."

  I walked back to where I was originally standing, and with a pull of the rope hidden behind the tree, a large boulder came crashing down from above, hitting the ground with a loud thud, sending dust flying everywhere. After the dust settled, a large pit appeared on the ground.

  Seeing such an effect, the big man's chin was shocked to drop to the ground, pointing at me for half a day before saying: "Little boy, are you trying to murder me......"

  "I awkwardly explained: 'You misunderstood, I've already explained before, this trap was originally prepared to demonstrate to you, there's absolutely no intention of harming you'"

  As I walked out the door with my intermediate archer badge, I was still thinking about the expression on the judge's face. Although I tried to keep a calm expression, in my heart I had already burst into laughter.